The Risen

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Synthesis

Those who have read The Risen and perhaps have listened to some of the radio broadcasts may have become aware that I (August) although a medium, don't do readings professionally. This includes the broadcasts, even though some people who call in may want me to do that. I simply don't, and some may wonder why. People want mediums to tell them things: what their loved one is doing and saying, what they want; what they want the person on earth to do -- how to behave, what to think and feel, where the money is, what the future is bringing, and so on. And the medium will most likely tell them, for this is what mediums who work this way do. It is hoped that when the medium doesn't get an answer, they say so.

When people come to a psychotherapist (which I am) they also, and often, want the same kind of thing: "Tell me what to do; make up my mind for me." However, psychotherapists don't do this, for that is not their role. Instead, they help explore, feel, and find answers within themselves, thus diminishing fear, while regaining lost power and Self Authority. As a therapist, I want my patients to learn how to use their own body, mind, and spirit to find the real and true answer from within, not without.

Could I do readings? Yes, but only under very rare circumstances. My mediumistic abilities have been and are utilized in service to the Greater Good in other particular ways, specifically over the last 8 years in helping to manifest this book. If I had tried to develop myself as a medium who gives readings, I would not have been able to have the strength and wherewithal to help with the book project. (In fact, I did try, but it was like trying to walk on my hands backwards; fortunately my guides turned me right side up and in the right direction.) Instead, with my consent, my training was taken in hand by some rather amazing and awesome Risen specialists to enable the difficult and time-consuming task I had agreed to. One of the primary initiatives of The Risen Collective is to work toward the synthesis of these two still quite separate ways of healing — mediumship and psychotherapy — and this book has opened up that discussion toward understanding that such a thing may be possible, how it can be achieved, and with some special guidance on how this process can be catalyzed.

As stated in the book, we believe "...there will be an eventual spiritual evolution of humanity, as enriched by Risen contact, whereby the various human therapies will all successfully and appropriately be able to utilize mediumistic abilities for healing purposes."

As well,new language is introduced to help transmit these specialized, higher ideas that will have a better fit with 21 century people and ways of living in today's world. Current readers will have realized that their experience with the book is expected to be an interactive one, guiding them toward gradual ideas of personalized change — change which can also enable one to contact a Risen Loved One on one's own, without assistance or intervention from a medium; along the way, one discovers one's own language of spiritual power and authority. This is big stuff, indeed! And readers are beginning to report success — like that of Dr. Melvin Morse, whose own experience with the material inspired him to write the inspirational Foreword for the book, while he continues to be an avid supporter and promoter of its ideas.

"Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes. The many become one, and are increased by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness' is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition.-- (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 26)

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"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
-- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

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"The instrument of thought, which has produced this world that does not work properly, is no longer valid. So perhaps this instrument of thought is worn out. Is there another instrument we can use?" -- Krishnamurti

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"...Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly."
-- Alfred North Whitehead - English mathematician & philosopher (1861-1947)___________________________________

". . . keeping the Risen concept of weaving in mind, perhaps at this point it can be sensed that what we have before us, from which we are inseparable and as reflected in this book, is a Supreme Tapestry. There appears to be a Very Grand Design which we all follow, either in awareness
or not, co-creatively or not -- recalling that creative means fun. As we weave we are free to make it up as we go along in any way we please, simultaneously staying within the Grand Design as imagined by Higher Imaginals, of whom we an inseparable part. The Grand Design is a work of perfections intermingled with imperfections, solutions with mistakes, and stillness within movement. The Higher Imaginals are many things, but for our purposes here, it suffices to say that they are very advanced and evolved individuals, or Higher Selves."
(from The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival Beyond Death; Chapter 13, Mundus Imaginalis, p. 165).